Blasphemy is not offended sensitivities, it's a political program every bit as cynical and aggressive as anything that ever came out of the ranks of the Communist Party.

Accept that we are part of a global society and that a billion Muslims get a vote on what we can and cannot say. Laws can no longer be adapted to individual nations, but must reflect global concerns and a global consensus. Freedom of speech may be an American approach, but it is no longer feasible in a global connected society.

"My initial tweet about Bacile, the person said to be responsible for the film mocking the prophet Mohammed, was not because I am against the First Amendment. If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!"

The Pope has a rather important role in Catholicism, but that's okay because the only religious figure that Muslims expect everyone to respect is Mohammed. If Christians pulled down posters with Koranic verses on them, there would be more riots and murders.

An embassy is a foreign nation's sovereign territory. Muslims who attack it and raise their black flag of Islam over it are "conquering" that territory for Islam. The Muslims who attacked the consulate in Benghazi and the embassy in Cairo saw themselves as liberating a chunk of infidel held territory for Islam, for the same reason that they attack Christian villages.

Gaza was arguably the prototype of the Arab Spring where open elections brought the local Muslim Brotherhood terrorist affiliate Hamas to power. The Palestinian elections told us what would happen with Muslim democracy and no one listened.